Journal of Military History

Journal of Military History
Title	Journal of Military History
Discipline	Military history
Language	English
Former names	Journal of the American Military Institute
Abbreviation	J. Milit. Hist.
Publisher	Society for Military History
Country	United States
Frequency	Quarterly
History	1937–present

Contents

Journal of Military History is a quarterly academic periodical published by the Society for Military History that covers modern and pre-modern conflicts, biographies, strategy, and operational studies. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research on campaigns, leaders, institutions, and technology from antiquity through the contemporary era, engaging with scholarship related to Napoleonic Wars, World War I, World War II, Vietnam War, and Cold War. Contributors have examined figures such as Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Napoleon Bonaparte, Ulysses S. Grant, Erwin Rommel, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S. Patton, and Vo Nguyen Giap.

History

Established in 1937 as the Journal of the American Military Institute, the periodical emerged amid interwar debates involving Frederick L. Schuman, Bernard Brodie, Basil Liddell Hart, John Keegan, and contemporaries debating lessons from the First World War and the Second World War. Postwar editorial shifts reflected transatlantic networks linking scholars at Harvard University, University of Oxford, Cambridge University, Princeton University, and United States Military Academy with officers from the United States Army, British Army, French Army, and Soviet Armed Forces. During the Cold War the journal published research engaging with archives from the National Archives and Records Administration, Public Record Office, Russian State Military Archive, and participants in the Korean War and Vietnam War. In the 1980s and 1990s editorial changes paralleled methodological debates involving proponents of social history represented by E.P. Thompson, cultural approaches associated with Michel Foucault, and operational analyses tied to Carl von Clausewitz and Antoine-Henri Jomini.

Governance originates with the Society for Military History executive committee and an editorial board drawing members from institutions such as Yale University, Columbia University, United States Naval Academy, Royal Military College of Canada, King's College London, Australian National University, University of Toronto, and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Peer review is double-blind and managed by editors who have included scholars affiliated with Cornell University, University of Chicago, Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University, and University of Michigan. The journal issues quarterly volumes, commissions special issues on topics like the American Civil War, Cost of War, Counterinsurgency, and Naval Warfare, and follows ethical guidelines comparable to those promulgated by the Committee on Publication Ethics and archival standards used by the International Council on Archives.

The periodical is indexed in major bibliographic services including JSTOR, Project MUSE, EBSCOhost, ProQuest, Scopus, Web of Science, and the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences. Citation data appear in databases used by researchers working on the Gulf War, Falklands War, Bosnian War, Iraq War, and Afghanistan conflict. Abstracts and indexing facilitate discovery for users of library systems such as the Library of Congress, British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and university consortia at Ohio State University, University of California, and University of Oxford.

Scholars have cited the journal in debates over interpretation of the Battle of Britain, analyses of Blitzkrieg, reassessments of Stalingrad, and scholarship on strategy from Clausewitz to Alfred Thayer Mahan. Military professionals at NATO, United States Department of Defense, Royal Australian Navy, and Indian Armed Forces have used articles to inform doctrine discussions alongside historians publishing in The Journal of Modern History, American Historical Review, English Historical Review, and War in History. The journal has influenced museum exhibitions at institutions like the Imperial War Museums, National WWII Museum, Australian War Memorial, and educational programs at West Point and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Notable contributions include archival studies reassessing the Zimmermann Telegram, operational analyses of the Battle of Midway, examinations of logistics in the Eastern Front, and cultural histories of soldier life drawing on letters from Trench warfare and memoirs from the Pacific War. Special issues have focused on the American Revolution, Thirty Years' War, Cold War intelligence, and transnational perspectives on decolonization featuring case studies from Algerian War of Independence, Mau Mau Uprising, Indochina War, and Suez Crisis. Essays have highlighted research on leaders like Simon Bolivar, Otto von Bismarck, Isabella I of Castile, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Toussaint Louverture, and on technologies including the rifled musket, ironclad warship, steam turbine, and jet engine.

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